Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Landmarks of World Literature (New))

This introductory advisor areas the Canterbury stories within the context of the predicament in English society within the fourteenth century. It examines the social variety of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic diversity in their stories and the mental richness in their interplay. the quantity bargains scholars a transparent photo of the robust illustration of the social fact that makes the Canterbury stories the most very important texts in English literature.

The Hidden World of Poetry - Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry

‘A talented commentator/close reader. “A hearer and heartener. ”’ Seamus Heaney‘Adam Wyeth discloses the heartbeat of an unbroken culture in poems that talk completely to the residing second. right away consultant to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and trained occasion of the modern, here's a booklet that would illumine the brain and cheer the guts.

Coleridge On Imagination V 6: Volume 1 (I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938)

First released in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Longman Annotated English Poets)

The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has inspired, encouraged, and challenged generations of writers, readers and students considering its final touch in 1596. Hamilton's variation is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and shut analyzing. it truly is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser.